Things to think about.

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Do I make every effort ?

2 Peter 1:5: And beside this, giving all diligence, (MAKE EVERY EFFORT)add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence (MAKE EVERY EFFORT)to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Are these the things I think about.

Philp.4:8: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things

Am I bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;


2 Cor.10:3: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:4: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds5: Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Have I been renewed in the spirit of my mind;

Eph.4:21: If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness


Phip.2:5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Do I walk in the light of love ?

1 John1:5: This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light,(love) and in him is no darkness at all.6: If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:7: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

2:10: He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him

[TalkLady]

Do any of the Old Timers recall the song about running 100% and 99.9% won't do, or something like that?

Yes, you have definitely given me something to think about.

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Do I communicate with evil,do I shun profane and vain babblings,do I abstain from all appearance of evil?

1 cor.15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

2Tim2:16: But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

1 Thes.5:22: Abstain from all appearance of evil

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Is these things once named in my life ?

Eph.5:3: But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;4: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.5: For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God

[Ron]

Something to think on, something to think on for sure Bro!

[simplyme]

Originally Posted by Joelel

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Is these things once named in my life ?

Eph.5:3: But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;4: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.5: For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God

Give up forums! (what I blue bolded)



I do seriously consider all the above topics often, thank you.

[Joelel]

Things to think about. Don't answer,just ask yourself.

Am I going to inherit the kingdom of God ?

Gal.5:19: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,20: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,21: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Joelel,

Thanks for the reminder.